US Patent Issued to AUDI on Nov. 11 for "Method for regulating the platinum oxide fraction in a fuel cell, and fuel cell system for a motor vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,867, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to AUDI AG (Ingolstadt, Germany).

"Method for regulating the platinum oxide fraction in a fuel cell, and fuel cell system for a motor vehicle" was invented by Markus Ruf (Waldstetten, Germany) and Hannah Staub (Karlsdorf-Neuthard, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is described for regulating the platinum oxide fraction in a catalyst layer of a fuel cell of a fuel cell stack for a motor vehicle, involving the steps: model-based determination of a present fraction of platinum oxide in dependence on a present operating state; determination of the electrical potential and/or a change in ...